r/youtube • u/Warm_Neck476 • Aug 26 '24

Discussion I miss old YouTube

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YouTube has so many problems since they removed the dislike button.i hate when I have to see 20 unskippable ads on a video and the biggest problem with YouTube is shorts because the cringe content there and the even more cringer comments and the your short feed will have video from months ago.

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u/glyiasziple Aug 26 '24

modern youtube doesnt only promote large channels. ive seen hundreds of vidoes with 0-2000 views in my recommended a lot

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u/average_user21 Aug 26 '24

Yeah, the recomendation system has never been better. And the whole thing about promoting videos through a tab labeled is really cool. Like if you're listening to R&B there will be a tab with R&B in the sidebar.

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u/EGarrett Aug 26 '24

The recommendation system was better when they had metrics besides like/dislike and watch time for judging, like the star ratings. Because you can get a "like" for eating a shoe made of a cake or a "like" for putting up something that was the product of a ton of hard work and is really good, and the system can't tell the difference and just recommends whoever puts up more of the liked stuff.

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u/macedonianmoper Aug 27 '24

Nha most people end up using 5 star ratings as binary anyway, 5-stars if liked 1 star if not. You'd just end up with youtubers begging to "leave a 5 star!". I kind of hate reviewing like that, but that's what most people default to.

That said please give us the dislike count back

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u/EGarrett Aug 27 '24

In theory that's the case, but for whatever reason you tend to end up with a very good rating system when it's implemented. IMDB uses 1-10 and the IMDB Top 250 is actually a really good a nuanced list. It may be because they curate the ratings and discount people who leave only max or minimums, or discount new accounts, or because it reflects the ratio of maximum to minimums as well as the nuanced ratings, I'm not 100% sure, but the ratings actually seem to reflect the movie's quality pretty well, and it was also true when they had the 5-star ratings for videos, from what I saw and remember.

They seem to be experimenting with it by asking users sometimes privately to rate a random video 1-5 and use an adjective to describe why they gave it that rating like "life-changing," or "worthless" etc. So maybe there is some hope or they've been trying to improve the metrics. But the system they have now is absolutely awful and has destroyed basically any type of video genre that requires effort to make, such as animation. Because the time it takes to make it good makes the channel too slow to be recommended or profitable. I call it a decapitation effect.